Meagher and the Montana Indian Treaty Adventure
The 1865 treaty at Fort Benton, backed by Governor Thomas Francis Meagher and Justice Munson, moved Northern tribes onto a Canadian border reservation, with $7500 in annuities. Culver recalls the journey from Helena to Fort Benton, the distribution scene, and Meagher’s dramatic warning to avert war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Francis Meagher
Lyman FE. Munson
Fort Benton
Glacier, Toole, Hill and
Blaine
Meagher
Munson
Helena
Malcolm Clark
Clark
West Point
John Jacob Astor
Virginia City
Montana Divorce Record Echoes Crisis in State
Bishop John P Carroll in Helena denounces Montana divorce rates as among the nation’s worst. He cites 323 per 100,000 divorces, compares to 112 nationally, and notes a rising trend from 1886 to 1916. The sermon at the cathedral sparked controversy over marital laxity and social decay. In other news, reports describe a tense evacuation with Indian camps in war paint and a bloodless peace arrival at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meagher
Montana
Nevada
Oregon
John P Carroll
Helena
Car
Roll
Carroll
Angel of Peace
Culver’s frontier life from 1870s to early 1880s documented
The narrative follows Culver through Indian wars in the 1870s, escaping battles with Cheyennes, and the Pat Hennessy fight. It recalls Deadwood after Wild Bill Hickok’s death, Calamity Jane, and Culver’s moves to Maiden, Lewistown, and the Judith Basin era. He trapped beaver on the Musselshell, saw buffalo herds wiped out, built a Mackinaw boat, traded furs to Bismarck, and later ran a photography business. Culver also photographed Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel’s lieutenant, before Dumont’s execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Culver
Iowa
Montana
Judith Basin
Kansas
Culver
Nevada
Oklahoma
Wichita
America
Custer
Black Kettle
Pat Hennessy
Hennessy
Batte
Buffalo Bill
Deadwood
Wild Bill
Hickok
Jack McCall
Dead
Butte
Harlowton
Hoppy’s Hope
Fort Benton
Fort Assinniboine
Maiden
Judith Country
Skookum
Joe
Yellowstone
Frank McPartland
C. C. Snow
Jean Irwin
Lewistown
Reed and Bowles
Francis Janeaux
Musselshell
Roundup
Elso
Coulson
Perry McAdow
Hatch
Goulding
Bozeman
Bismarck
Miss Sourt
Plains
Judith Gap
Miles City
Missouri River
Northern Pacific
Forsyth
Junction
Custer Station
Judith
Gabriel Dumont
Louis Riel
Canada
Dominion
Also Mentioned on This Page
Great Falls
Cascades
The
Missouri
Lyman E. Munson
Bishop Carroll
State
John P. Carroll
Hercules
Ontana Durum
Montana Macaroni Manufacturing Company
Cascade
Cascade Bank of
Mont
N. T. Lease
Clyde Wiikcox
A. BE. Gable
A. F. Bartholomew
J. W. McKenzie
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